Once I recognized how these things developed in myself. I worked hard to nip those things in the bud around my children. I cant create their personalities, because its impossible not to be flawed. But I make sure the creation of my flaws are not passed to them. And my kids show me every now and then through their actions and words, that they dont suffer from what I deal with internally.
To correct this stuff, like you said the first step was to first acknowledge those and a few others, then it was to become mindful of when I'm triggered into using the covers. Then the hardest part..the fucking hardest part is letting go of the cover and letting go of the result of that..and that part
I only know how to deal with the result with the old me, only reaction was over reaction ..I'm learning coping skills to not go from 0-100